He's a class act too. Great move by LA.

is that the same wee cat???

“The winds shows us how close to the edge we are.” -Didion

It is so difficult to see the edge when there’s an empty space where your life used to be.

In a second-hand paperback copy of her 1968 "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," I first learned of the Santa Ana winds. "It is the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread, wherever the wind blows,” she wrote. It is the season of fires.

Yes, it was a kind of madness.
Perusing the images out of LA in recent days, I'm again reminded of Joan Didion. She is wholly responsible for shaping my fascination with Southern California.While hers is an incomplete portrait of Los Angeles, it is nonetheless the one that has stayed with me.

Some years later, I reread the book.This time, I got it. Newly widowed and overwhelmed by a grief for which there are no adequate words, I too lived a year of "magical thinking," persisting with little rituals and obsessions, pretensions that, together, helped me move forward to an uncertain future.

Wow. Classy guy with a vast vocabulary.